Simply put, it is a food tasting, one is to taste the flavor of the dish, and the other is to see if there is any poison in the dish.
Before important people in the palace eat, someone will test for poison with a silver needle, and then the eunuchs will taste the dishes one by one, take away the ones that don't taste good, and keep the ones that taste good. After all this, the main person will start eating.
If the eunuch who served the queen was poisoned to death, it meant that someone was planning to attack the queen.
"Someone wants to poison the queen?" Chongzhen narrowed his eyes with a murderous look.
He hasn't killed anyone in a long time.
Now it seems that not killing people is not a good thing.
"It seems so...and it seems not so!" Wang Chengen said in a contradictory way. "The eunuch who served the queen was just found hanged in a room where miscellaneous items were piled up. Commander Li is investigating, but there is no conclusion yet."
"And...the queen is sick." Wang Chengen added.
"Go to Kunning Palace!" Chongzhen hurriedly passed through the back door of the Qianqing Palace and walked quickly towards Kunning Palace.
"What's wrong with the Queen? Is she poisoned? Have you seen the imperial physician?" Chongzhen asked one question after another on the way.
Wang Chengen did not dare to hide it: "Your Majesty, the Queen had been ill before, and could not eat or sleep. At that time, the Wenyu River victory was just around the corner, and the Queen was afraid of affecting Your Majesty's mood, so she kept it a secret from me."
"I suddenly fainted today, so I dared to tell the emperor."
Seeing the knife in Chongzhen's eyes, Wang Chengen hurriedly continued: "The imperial physician has already checked it, and the symptoms do not seem to be poisoning. They have no idea about the specific symptoms."
Before the eunuchs and palace maids finished their greetings, Chongzhen had already arrived at the Queen's bedside.
The usually gentle and charming Queen Zhou was seen lying quietly on the bed with her lips tightly closed and her face pale.
Two imperial physicians from the Imperial Medical Bureau stood by, at a loss as to what to do.
Before Chongzhen could speak, Li Ruolian suddenly appeared outside the door.
Kunning Palace is an important place in the harem, and even the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard is not qualified to enter rashly.
Li Ruolian whispered a few words into Wang Chengen's ear, then stood there with a serious face.
Wang Chengen came to Chongzhen and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty, the eunuch who served the queen was strangled to death and hung on the beam."
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